<\/p>\n
“May I, emerging at last from this terrible insight
\nBurst into jubilant praise to assenting angels”<\/p>\n
– Rilke<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It is strange
\nbut
\nI am happy.<\/p>\n
Millions are dying of hunger.
\nChildren with chopped off limbs
\nwalk towards candy stores
\nin their dreams.<\/p>\n
Fast cars roar off to nowhere.
\nBurn patients sit softly on white sheets.
\nPeople are jumping off buildings.
\nBuildings are falling down.<\/p>\n
A millionaire counts his pennies
\npulled from a cookie jar.
\nThe sun is burning and mice
\nare getting caught everyday
\nin better built mousetraps.<\/p>\n
Lungs fill up with the waste\u00a0of man’s ingenuity.
\nWhales cough blood in
\nthe black of a cesspool sea.
\nGuns grow like geraniums
\npicked up and given in the name
\nof freedom rather than death.<\/p>\n
My parents, your parents.
\nMy son, your daughter.
\nThe bright eyed boy across the street.
\nWe are all going to die.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Funny.
\nI am happy.
\nPerhaps it is because<\/p>\n
I am here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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